Hi all, I sat for exam P in November 2013 for the first time, to see how the exam is structured and how hard is it. I failed that exam, because I didn't study for it enough.

However, I am now more serious about these exams and recently started studying for exam P. I am planning to write it in May 2014. My question is, Is it too tough to pass actuarial exams if you haven't been studying Actuarial Science in College/University. I am an Economics major in University. I have taken Calculus...

Posted 08-12-2008 at 02:37 AM bynotmyfriendsUpdated 08-12-2008 at 02:44 AM bynotmyfriends(to point out that the installed spell check for these blogs does not recognzie the word "blog")

So the Actuarial Outpost has blogs now. Is this normal for a forum? I can't say I've ever seen it before.

It begs the question, though, what are Actuaries going to blog about when given a place to blog together? What percentage of that could possibly be worth reading? I know anything I write certainly won't be.

My honest answer: If you, as an adult, are still "learning from your mistakes", it is a sign that you never learned from them as a child, and if you never learned from them as a child then why would you start learning from them now? When someone says they've learned from a mistake (in the greater sense of human growth and experience) they are attempting to excuse themselves. Such a person should not be taken seriously.

Here is a picture of me opening what I got from my Secret Santa. Well, actually, he didn't wrap it, so I took it myself and put it in a box, and then opened the box so I could be surprised. Boy was I ever!